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• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 26, Apr 2022

A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119 years, local officials said today. Kane Tanaka, was born on 2nd January 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie beca

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 25, Apr 2022

Emmanuel Macron has won a second term in France's presidential election with 58.2 per cent of the vote. Macron's far-right challenger Marine Le Pen won 41.8 per cent of the vote in an election that saw the country's highest abstention rate in 50 years. After polls

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 23, Apr 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is among five people named yesterday as recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for acting to protect democracy. The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said that he was chosen because of the way he has “marshaled the spi

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 22, Apr 2022

Russia announced that it successfully test-launched a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday at a time when Moscow-West tensions have sharply escalated over Ukraine. The missile was fired from a silo at 05:42 hrs IST at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in northwest Russ

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 14, Apr 2022

In Finland, Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said that the country will decide whether to join Nato within weeks. Her comments coincided with a report to the Finnish parliament that said membership of the bloc could result in increased tensions on the border between Finland and Russia.

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Apr 2022

In US, at least 13 people have been injured in a shootout at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York.Law enforcement officials said the injured have been admitted to various hospitals in the area after what the police think was a lone wolf attack.The police have described the s

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Apr 2022

Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs Saurabh Kumar held bilateral talks with his Cambodian counterpart Koy Kuong at Phnom Penh in Cambodia today. They reviewed progress in bilateral issues and exchanged views on regional and multilateral issues of mutual concern. The S

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Apr 2022

Former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that an interim government under a new Prime Minister must be formed to resolve the ongoing economic crisis. The New PM proposal was among the 11 proposals submitted by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party-led coalition.Mr Sirisena

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Apr 2022

In Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif has become the 23rd prime minister of the country after taking an oath. He was administered the oath by Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjarani.Earlier today, parliament elected the Opposition's joint candidate Sharif as the country's new prime minister

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 11, Apr 2022

Bangladesh science teacher Hridoy Chandra Mondol was granted bail by a Munshiganj court on Sunday. Hridoy Mondol was arrested on March 22 based on a complaint that he had insulted Islam while discussing the difference between science and religion with students in the school.The co